even before you say it, you want to take it back. just for thinking it. but then oops, it slips. now it's Out There. and the words hang in the air. and you want to grab them. but they slip, again, out from under your tongue and in between your fingers, smoothly sliding through the air, defiantly navigating through the invisible nothingness. did you just say....
this is why i so much prefer to write. with writing, you can simply erase words, cross them out, tear them up, hold down backspace. you can make them disappear, you have total control over them. one second thought and they're gone, vanished, as though they never even existed.
i need to wicked shut up sometimes.
i need you to tell me this more often.
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I love this line
"my tongue's the only muscle on my body that works harder than my heart."
With writing, though, even though you can erase it while you're working on it, it becomes a permanent record. You can always tell someone they are crazy and mis-remembered what you said, but if its written, it can haunt you forever.
Posted by Jessica | March 24, 2005 1:27 PM
Posted on March 24, 2005 13:27